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Premium Member Clutching This Instance
If ever I had two hours with you… or three,
the vacancy of this night and lulled
shores would be refilled with the gushing
of frosted air on...

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Categories: instance, absence, memory, time,
Form: Carpe Diem



A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...

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Categories: instance, creation, dark, evil, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Accepting Life V
I turned,
towards my friend, who always was complaining
about the injustices and hardships of life and in 
a calm voice I asked him:
 
" Tell me,...

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Categories: instance, happiness, life, men,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blind Panic
Blind panic

There was a warning came one day
It said disaster’s on its way
An old volcano in the distance
It could erupt in any instance

The molten ash...

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Categories: instance, earth, fear, horror, natural
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Karma
Fluted hands angle on knees as glimpses 
sort the knitted threads of a late afternoon
where gathering of blooms abide.
Almost friendless, a man inhabits his space
ready...

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Categories: instance, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Humbling Firmament
Between heaven and earth is so much more
You and I are for instance, but before
We were, there was and forever will be
The imprint of who...

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Categories: instance, appreciation, love, sea, stars,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Conversation
Dark, the night morphs slowly toward dawn.
In its last vestige, the moment in which night becomes morning,
he speaks to me.
I refer to him as "he"...

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Categories: instance, death, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Visions In Fatima
Strewn with buds onto night’s refrain
We followed  the hovel of an outer-world,
As rustling leaves formed a map’s cave
Through a journey connecting reality;
Where our twin-...

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Categories: instance, mystery, travel,
Form: Free verse
Name Game
The Name Game

Understanding human nature can be very complex indeed
Especially when there are people whose names are hard to read
Let me give you some examples...

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Categories: instance, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Listen To Your Heart
I see phantasms floating through the billowing early morning mist
where I stand alone by the black water as its ever 
probing tongue licks gently at...

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Categories: instance, desire, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Unlike Thee Athenian
Those rarer men I once fondly 
knew...                  ...

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Categories: instance, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member As Clear as Daylight
Sometimes we can go all our lives seeing something without really having any insight into what we are seeing. For instance, hands in prayer position....

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Categories: instance, allegory, introspection, perspective, prayer,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member I Am
Who am I is a question,
That baffles and confuses me.
Aren’t I a stranger to myself,
When in me angels and demons cohabit,
Dwelling side by side.

Sometimes I...

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Categories: instance, i am, life, light,
Form: Free verse
To Those That Say All Lives Matter When We Say Black Lives Matter
You say all lives matter
Bringing up all these colors 
Like red, white, orange, and blue
But when a black life is taken, where on Earth are...

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Categories: instance, black african american, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Big Problem
Once there was a famous king,
More famous than Ozymandias.
His name was King Wolf. 
Sultan was his nickname.
He called himself a benevolent despot;
And his style of...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instance, irony, satire, , ozymandias,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things